“Who leaked this information?” the president asked.
“It was me, sir.”
“What was the reason for aligning with the press?”
“It was better if we controlled the narrative, sir. This way, he’s more likely to come to us before snooping around behind our backs.”
“Everything is going to be questioned now that Stanton’s dead. They might even want to know what happened in Spain with Diablo.”
“They won’t.”
President Sanders sighed on the other end of the call.
“The entire process of this agency was compromised before it even got started. We both know what Stanton and General Jones did in the past.”
“I put you in this position because you wanted to clean things up. I didn’t give you permission to throw us under the bus,” President Sanders argued.
“If you want me to step down, I will. I never
